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Developer-signed Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer
— Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway. — Security researcher and privacy activist Jacob Appelbaum found …
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iTunes Store adds ‘buy now, download later’ option for video and music
— In March, I wrote an article about how Apple should change the way iTunes Store purchases work. Namely, that there should be a way to buy content now, but download it later—especially in the case of large video files such as movies or TV show seasons.
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Hands on: Chrome for iOS adds full-screen, save to PDF
— Google recently reheated the browser wars with the announcement that it would be switching rendering engines for Chrome. But despite iOS's prohibition on non-WebKit-based browsers, the search giant isn't letting its version of Chrome for Apple's mobile platform languish.
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Silent email filtering makes iCloud an unreliable option
— These days, so much important communication is conducted by email that we expect it to be rock solid. So when emails don't arrive—or even worse, we don't know that they didn't arrive—it can be worrisome.
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Audible.com revamps iOS app to include iPad display
— Audible.com overhauled its iOS app on Wednesday morning, bring a native iPad interface to the previously iPhone-only offering. — Version 2. of the audiobook-playing app also features other upgrades, including revamped navigation …
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In his own words: Tim Cook on Apple earnings and more
— Sequentially we increased over 70 percent from the September quarter, which was 3.5 times the market, and so we could not be happier with that. In terms of geographic distribution, we saw our highest growth in China, and it was into the triple digits.
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How Apple sets its prices
— Comparison-shopping for new electronics can be fun and addictive. With a bit of patience, some luck, and an eye for good deals, you can find everything from TV sets to hard drives at a significant discount. In fact, in our economy, discounts …
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The unlikely persistence of AppleScript
— First, a little history: — Apple acquired NeXT at the end of 1996, with the plan of using that company's OpenStep operating system as the foundation for the future of Mac OS. The first plan for that OS was called Rhapsody …
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Evernote 5 launches with revised interface, new search and collaboration features
— Evernote for Mac, the much-lauded productivity app that lets users collect pictures, text, and more to document their lives and their research, received a major new update Thursday with changes to the interface …
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iCloud: Sharing done wrong
— Despite the prominent addition of sharing features in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion, the company's concept of “sharing” is actually a narrow one. And in an increasingly interconnected era—when people are spending more and more time sharing words, images, files …
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).